first screenshot browser. Then, people were shocked by how far technology has come
Scientists of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) have begun to attempt to restore the very first page on the Internet.
aim of the project – keep the original physical hardware and the software of time the birth of the Internet.
the World Wide Web was created 20 years ago, worked at CERN Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
According to Dan Noyes, web manager CERN, the restoration of the first in the history of the web page will help future generations learn how the Internet has changed and continues to change a person’s life.
“I would like my children to realize the importance of this moment in the history of mankind. internet now everywhere, it was like a” normal “phenomenon, and there is a danger that we forget just how much he has changed fundamentally,” – says Dan Noyes.
“Who is a unique moment in history, because we can still turn on the very first server and see how it works. We want to keep it”.
ideals and aspirations
NeXT computer is now restored
Project members also hope that the restoration of the first web page and the first website will be reminded of the ideals and aspirations of the creators of the Internet.
Internet technology is based on decentralized control and free access to all the information. It is because of this architecture, the Internet, almost all working in the web space convinced of the importance of freedom of expression, universal access to the Internet, and they are characterized by a tendency towards decentralization of information.
It is this tendency to undermine traditional values ??makes the first attempt to restore the site so interesting.
During conversations with the participants of the project at CERN, it became clear that for them – it’s not just the restoration of old computers and equipping them with no less than old programs. For them it is the embodiment of a powerful idea, which, they believe, is gradually changing the whole world.
I went into the former office of Tim Berners-Lee, where he worked in the computer department of CERN, trying to find new ways to handle the huge amount of information generated by particle accelerators.
inside would not let me, as a person who holds that office today, just tired of the constant succession of visitors.
But before the door of the office was a historical person who was a young researcher at CERN, when he worked there, Tim Berners-Lee. James Gillies rose to the post of head of department CERN public relations.
He also participates in the restoration of the first web site. The question “why” he says simply: “I have always dreamed of to show people how people then used the Internet”.
“For example, one might assume that the first browser was very primitive, but it is not. He has used a graphical programming language. It can be edited from the beginning. It was an awesome thing. thing is very advanced.”
principles that will change the world
People who are not connected with Web technology can be very skeptical of the idea of ??using the computer program and the 20-year-old to see the old text on a Web page.
“ Free Internet – it’s practically a human ”
Professor Nigel Shadbolt,
University of Southampton
But James Gillies, and Dan Noyes convinced that the recovery of the first web page and the first website worth it, because in their original structure based on the principles of universality and universal access – the principles that are believed creators of the Internet 20 years ago, will change the world and make it more fair.
Members of the first web browser, for example, be able to edit and change content. In modern browsers, this function is no more.
At the very initial stages of development of the Internet has also created a simple browser that allows users to view content on a very simple and cheap computer.
According to Dan Noyes, many ideals, which was founded by early internet, gradually disappear. That’s why he wanted to “go back in time and save it”.
“Modern browsers simply wonderful, but if you look into the past, to the early browsers, which, in my opinion, it is clear that we have lost some aspects of the vision of Tim Berners-Lee”.
Now Dan Noyes searches engineers who worked on computers at the time NeXT, where he worked, Tim Berners-Lee, to understand how to restore them.
In those days it was the most modern computers, and to create the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee needed two such machines. One of these machines put on display next to the office of Dan Noyes.
I told him that, approaching the miracle of computer technology of the early 90′s, I wanted to stop, shut up and admire what he saw.
“Imagine what the reaction of visitors, if we manage to revive him!” – meets Dan Noyes.
20 years ago, CERN has decided to share his invention – the Internet – with the world. Free.
most important document
inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee
In 1993, the managers of CERN were heated debates about whether it should remain CERN base all over the internet or the company should focus on its main goal – the fundamental physics studies.
Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues insisted that the Internet does not belong to CERN.
CERN Management has agreed and signed a legal document that forbade anyone to take it online under his personal control. The document also guaranteed free access to the open standards of the Internet.
says James Gillies, this is the most important document in the history of the World Wide Web.
“Without that, in the world there would be things like the Internet, but each would have belonged to Microsoft, Apple, Vodafone or anyone else. Open standards available to everyone, there would be no”.
Internet has not led to radical changes in the society, as it had hoped 20 years ago, its creators. Most of the sites prefer a one-way exchange of information.
But for those who study the Internet – for example, for Professor Nigel Shadbolta of Southampton University – extremely important to maintain the principles and ideas, which was founded by early internet.
According to him, it is necessary to defend the principle of public access to the Internet, that he was not under the control of any organizations or corporations. “Free internet – it’s practically a human right,” – says Nigel Shadbolt.
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